Moreover, the European Court of Human Rights has stressed the need to afford sufficient procedural safeguards against arbitrariness in the framework of the process of the domestic authorities making such individual assessments.51 This includes the right to be heard, the right to present evidence, the right to be represented by a lawyer, the right to defence, the right to a sufficiently reasoned decision, and the possibility to contest the decision to an independent judicial body. Since the ineligibility to be elected applies ex lege, it is not possible to legally challenge the exclusion of the right to stand for election on its merits, contrary to the principle of access to justice, one of the pillars of the Rule of Law.52 As there is no individual assessment of each case, the person concerned will not be heard nor be provided with a reasoned decision that would be subject to judicial review nor have access to an effective remedy for the violation of the right to stand for election.